It has a Nice Ring to it, doesn't it?
Consumer Activists Unite to Demand Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods.
Contact: Trish Wright, Organizer: 540-915-3677
(Rally for the Right to Know)
Email: nogmosroanoke@yahoo.com
April Reeves, Media Contact 604-233-0781
Email: aprilreeves@shaw.ca
Their demands are simple:
1. We have the right to know and want genetically modified foods labeled.
2. We want factory farmed animal and genetically modified animal products labeled.
3. We want independent, transparent, long-term studies done on the safety of GMO’s for animals, plants
and humans.
4. We want the organic industry protected from cross-contamination and law suits to organic farmers.
The FDA currently considers GM foods “substantially equivalent” and therefore doesn’t require labeling.
There is a growing body of evidence that show:
• Health and environmental concerns.
• Corporate control of world food and seed supplies, and monopolization through patents, government
lobbying and corporate interest over human interest in all levels of government.
• Monsanto is the leader in GM patents.
Rally Organizer, Trish Wright “We will not stop in our efforts to accomplish our goals. If the FDA won’t
tell people, we will. Our freedom of choice is being violated by the FDA not requiring these products to
be labeled.”
To date, the majority of commodity crops are genetically engineered. (Soy, corn, canola, cotton). Many
deregulated crops such as GE Alfalfa and GE Sugar Beet, being planted in 2011, have the ability to
destroy the organic industry.
People are asked to participate in or organize a rally in their area.
Visit: www.facebook.com/rallyfortherighttoknow2011 for more information.
Or, go to...http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
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